Brazil: 2024 Dengue

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Source: https://www.laprensalatina.com/dengue-cases-in-brazil-nearly-triple-due-to-el-nino-climate-crisis/

Dengue cases in Brazil nearly triple due to El Niño, climate crisis
Online News Editor January 25, 2024
By Jon Martín Cullell

São Paulo, Jan 25 (EFE).- High rainfall and temperatures associated with El Niño phenomenon and climate change have caused cases of dengue fever in Brazil to triple in the first few weeks of 2024, the country’s Ministry of Health said on Thursday.

Within the first three weeks of January, 120,874 cases and an incidence of 59.5 per 100,000 people were recorded, nearly three times higher than the 44,753 cases over the same period of 2023.

The ministry also said 12 deaths from the mosquito-borne disease had been confirmed and 85 were under investigation in the first three weeks of 2024.

Health officials predict record case numbers this year of between 1.7 million and 5 million.

In 2023, Brazil had more than 1.6 million cases and over 1,000 deaths.​..

 

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Source: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireS...clared-dengue-health-emergency-days-106963804

Rio de Janeiro declares a dengue health emergency days ahead of Carnival
ByELÉONORE HUGHES Associated Press
February 5, 2024, 1:23 PM

RIO DE JANEIRO -- Rio de Janeiro on Monday has declared a public health emergency because of an outbreak of mosquito-borne dengue fever, the city announced Monday, just days before Carnival celebrations kick off across Brazil.

The outbreak wasn't expected to derail Carnival, which officially starts Friday evening and runs until Feb. 14, but it has prompted a slew of special measures by the city in hopes of containing the illness.

Rio city hall announced the opening of 10 care centers, the creation of an emergency operations center and the allocation of hospital beds for dengue patients. Authorities also will use “smoke cars” in regions with the highest incidence of cases, diffusing an insecticide in the air.

Since the beginning of 2024, the municipality has registered more than 10,000 dengue cases. That is just under half of the total cases — 23,000 — recorded throughout all of 2023...

 

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Why the dengue emergency in Brazil predicts a health crisis for the entire American continent

The Brazilian Ministry of Health warns that more than 4.2 million cases are expected for this year.

By Stephanie Nolen, The New York Times Company
Published on February 13, 2024 at 4:02 a.m.

There is a huge outbreak of dengue (the mosquito-borne disease that can be fatal) in Brazil, and public health experts say it is a harbinger of a coming surge in cases across the Americas, including Puerto Rico.

The Brazilian Ministry of Health warns that more than 4.2 million cases are expected for this year, above the 4.1 million cases recorded by the Pan American Health Organization in the 42 countries of the region last year.

There were already predictions that this was going to be a bad year for Brazil in terms of dengue - the numbers of cases of this virus usually rise and fall every four years or so - but experts say that several factors, such as El Niño and the climate change, have greatly amplified this year's problem.

“The historical maximum temperatures in the country and the extraordinary rainfall since last year, even before the summer, increased the number of mosquito breeding sites in Brazil, even in regions that previously had few cases of the disease,” commented the Minister of Brazilian health Nísia Trindade.
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On Monday, the city of Rio de Janeiro declared a health emergency situation due to dengue, days before the start of the annual Carnival celebration, which brings together tens of thousands of people in open-air parties for several days and nights.

According to Trindade, high numbers of cases are being reported in Brazil's southernmost states, which tend to be colder than Rio and the central and northern states. Residents of those areas will have little immunity to the disease due to lack of prior exposure.

Dengue has four serotypes, which are like cousin viruses. If you have already been infected with one of them, you are only protected for a short time from becoming infected with another, and people who have contracted one serotype of dengue in the past are at greater risk of developing severe dengue if they become infected with another serotype.

“Right now, serotypes are circulating in Brazil that have not circulated in 20 years,” said Ernesto Marques, associate professor of infectious diseases and microbiology at the University of Pittsburgh.

Brazil has already begun an emergency campaign to vaccinate children in areas with the highest or highest risk rates of dengue transmission, with a double-dose vaccine called Qdenga, made by Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., a Japanese pharmaceutical company. Brazil purchased 5.2 million doses to be delivered this year, plus another 9 million for delivery in 2025, and the company donated 1.3 million more, accounting for the majority of Qdenga's global supply. A company spokesperson stated that Takeda is working on a plan to increase supply, with the particular goal of delivering to high-prevalence countries.

Still, that's only enough to cover less than ten percent of the Brazilian population for two years. The only good news about dengue in Brazil at the moment is the publication of the results of the clinical trial of a new vaccine that was tested at the Butantan Institute, a public health research center in São Paulo. That vaccine only requires one shot, and the trial found that it protected 80 percent of those vaccinated from developing dengue viral disease. The research center will ask the Brazilian government to approve the vaccine, and has facilities to produce it, so its goal is to start delivering vaccines in 2025.

https://www.prensalibre.com/interna...-sanitaria-para-todo-el-continente-americano/

 

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Source: https://www.plenglish.com/news/2024/02/14/brazil-reports-more-than-500000-dengue-cases-in-2024/


Brazil reports more than 500,000 dengue cases in 2024
February 14, 2024
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Brasilia, Feb 14 (Prensa Latina) Brazil has reported 512,353 probable cases of dengue, 75 confirmed deaths and 340 under investigation, so far in 2024, according to the latest report from the Ministry of Health.

The Southeast region has 60.2 percent of the cases and the number of those analyzed has increased fourfold compared to the same period in 2023, when 128,842 cases were reported.

Minas Gerais (southeast) appears as the state with the highest deathtoll from the disease, 16.​..

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Source: https://www.laprensalatina.com/brazil-faces-more-than-700000-dengue-cases-in-two-months/

Brazil faces more than 700,000 dengue cases in two months
Online News EditorFebruary 22, 2024​
By Alex Mirkhan and Carlos Meneses

Brasilia, Feb 22 (EFE).- In the midst of the worst outbreak in recent years, Brazil fights dengue door-to-door with fumigation and awareness campaigns aimed to eliminate the country’s number one enemy: the Aedes aegypti mosquito (yellow fever mosquito).

In the first few months of 2024, there were 715,000 cases and 135 deaths reported across Brazil.

According to the latest report from the Ministry of Health, 481 deaths are under investigation as they could also be disease-related.

The number of infections between January and February represents nearly half of those registered last year (1,658,816) when all alarms started to go off.

The situation has escalated in at least seven of Brazil’s 27 states, including two of the three most populated: Minas Gerais and Rio de Janeiro, which officially declared a dengue epidemic on Wednesday.

Brasilia, in a state of emergency​...

 

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Dengue epidemic in Amapa: a second death in Oiapoque

A new death due to dengue was confirmed on February 21 in Oiapoque where the patient was transferred to hospital due to the seriousness of his condition.

Catherine Lama • Published on February 23, 2024 at 11:16 a.m., updated February 23, 2024 at 12:16 p.m.

Dengue has been raging severely in Amapa for months, the border town with Guyana Oiapoque is particularly affected.

A 38-year-old man, an indigenous nurse, died on February 21 from dengue fever, which he had been battling for ten days. A first case of fatal dengue fever was recorded on January 10 , in a 25-year-old young man.

In Oiapoque, where a health emergency has been declared since January, health authorities have recorded 316 confirmed cases while 51 other cases are to be confirmed. The city received additional resources to combat dengue fever, including medications and increased staffing for the laboratory that diagnoses dengue fever. The majority of reported cases of dengue fever report the D3 virus, which is dengue hemorrhagic fever. At the same time, prevention and awareness actions are carried out.

The federal government quickly positioned itself with national health authorities in order to be one of the first states to receive the dengue vaccine now produced on a large scale in Brazil.

Dengue fever is also rife in the rest of the Amapaense territory.

On February 21, a state of health emergency was also declared in Tartarugalzinho where around a hundred cases of dengue fever were recorded last weekend.

https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/guya...apa-un-deuxieme-deces-a-oiapoque-1467444.html

 

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Source: https://en.mercopress.com/2024/03/01/brazil-surpasses-1-million-probable-cases-of-dengue-this-year

Brazil surpasses 1 million probable cases of dengue this year
Friday, March 1st 2024 - 09:49 UTC

Brazil has recorded 1,017,278 probable cases of dengue and 214 confirmed deaths from the disease so far this year, Agencia Brasil reported Thursday. Another 687 fatalities are under investigation.

The current dengue incidence rate is 501 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the Arbovirus Monitoring Panel, released Thursday by the Health Ministry. In the Federal District, it reached 3,612.7 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

Among the probable cases, 55.4% are women and 44.6% men. The 30 to 39 age group continues to account for the largest number of dengue cases in the country, followed by the 40 to 49 age group and the 50 to 59 age group. The State of Minas Gerais tops the list of probable cases with 352,036 of them.

The Federal District is one of the states that has declared a public health emergency because of the explosion in dengue cases. According to Governor Ibaneis Rocha, the capital's health networks, both public and private, have collapsed.​..
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Source: https://www.agenzianova.com/en/news...ed-13-million,-with-343-victims-of-the-virus/


Brazil: dengue cases exceed 1,3 million, 343 victims of the virus
The states with the most registered cases are Minas Gerais (451.731), Sao Paulo (235.447), Paraná (126.922), Distrito Federal (121.433) and Rio de Janeiro (101.145)
St. Paul
March 8 2024

Probable dengue cases in Brazil have surpassed 1,3 million in 2024. For now, 343 people have died from the virus, while another 775 deaths are under investigation. This was announced by the Brazilian Ministry of Health. The states with the most registered cases are Minas Gerais (451.731), Sao Paulo (235.447), Paraná (126.922), Distrito Federal (121.433) and Rio de Janeiro (101.145)...
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Source: https://goachronicle.com/brazil-reports-391-deaths-from-dengue-in-2024/

Brazil reports 391 deaths from dengue in 2024
By: GC NewsDesk
SourceVia UNI-India
Date: 12/03/2024

​Rio De Janeiro: Brazil has registered 391 confirmed deaths from dengue so far this year with another 854 deaths under investigation, the Health Ministry said on Monday.

A total of 1,583,183 suspected cases of dengue have been reported nationwide, including 12,652 severe cases, the ministry said in its daily report.

The incidence rate of dengue fever in the South American country is currently 757.5 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.​..

 

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Source: https://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202403/19/WS65f8ee6aa31082fc043bd6ad.html

Brazil registered record cases of dengue in 2024
Xinhua | Updated: 2024-03-19 09:46

SAO PAULO -- Brazil has registered a record 1,889,206 suspected cases of dengue so far this year with 561 deaths, the health ministry said Monday.

In face of surging dengue cases coincides, a health emergency was declared Monday by South America's largest city, Sao Paulo, following a wave of the viral disease spread by the Aedes aegypti mosquito, according to the latest report by the ministry's arbovirus panel.

The previous record was 1,688,688 cases in 2015. And the third highest number was registered in 2023, with 1,658,816 cases.​..

 

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Source: https://www.brytfmonline.com/brazil...-than-2-million-dengue-cases-this-year-alone/

Brazil breaks record with more than 2 million dengue cases this year alone
Andrea Hargraves March 22, 2024 2 min read

​628 deaths from the disease have already been confirmed

Brazil surpassed 2 million dengue cases in 2024, according to data from the country's Ministry of Health, a new record as long as records exist.

The country has had 2,010,896 probable and confirmed cases since January. There are 628 confirmed deaths due to the disease and another 1,042 deaths under investigation.

This number is the highest recorded in the entire historical series carried out by the Ministry of Health, which has been collecting data since the year 2000.​..

 

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Source: https://www.mediarunsearch.co.uk/sao-paulo-exceeds-100000-dengue-cases/


São Paulo exceeds 100,000 dengue cases
Camelia Kirk March 31, 2024​

The city of São Paulo has reported an alarming increase in dengue cases this year, with the state Department of Health confirming a total of dengue cases. 100,272 cases Until Saturday, September 30, 2024. This figure is the result of an analysis of 246,417 notifications received by the General Secretariat, indicating a situation of concern for public health in the capital.

Among the confirmed cases 99,588 Dengue fever is common, while 601 It has been identified as dengue fever with an alarm signal, and 83 Such as severe dengue fever. Moreover, there is 114,106 probable cases is still under analysis, 13,834 Cases under investigation and 131,894 Cases were ignored. The number of confirmed deaths due to the disease reached 19, while 84 others are still under investigation...

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Source: https://en.mercopress.com/2024/04/04/dengue-kills-over-1-000-people-in-brazil-so-far-this-year

Dengue kills over 1,000 people in Brazil so far this year
Thursday, April 4th 2024 - 10:31 UTC

Dengue fever has killed over 1,000 Brazilians so far this year while other 1,531 deaths are under investigation, federal authorities admitted Wednesday. The Health Ministry's Arbovirus Panel said 1,020 deaths from the disease have been recorded whereas the total number of casualties from the same ailment in 2023 amounted to 1,079. The country has recorded some 2.6 million infections, Agencia Brasil also reported.

However, eight Brazilian States were showing a downward trend in the number of dengue cases: Acre, Amazonas, Espírito Santo, Goiás, Minas Gerais, Piauí, Roraima, and the Federal District. “The states that are falling were where the epidemic began. For these, we can say that the worst is over,” said Health and Environmental Surveillance Secretary Ethel Maciel.

Another seven states are still on an upward trend: Alagoas, Bahia, Maranhão, Mato Grosso do Sul, Pernambuco, Rio Grande do Norte, and Sergipe.​...
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Source: https://en.mercopress.com/2024/04/1...rly-70-of-dengue-cases-in-latam-and-caribbean

Brazil accounts for nearly 70% of dengue cases in LatAm and Caribbean
Friday, April 12th 2024 - 22:20 UTC

According to a survey conducted by the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Brazil accounted for almost 70% of dengue cases in Latin America and the Caribbean, where some 4.6 million infections were confirmed this year, representing a 237% interannual increase, Agencia Brasil reported. PAHO is the arm of the World Health Organization (WHO) in the Americas.

The new figures were announced by PAHO arbovirus specialist Carlos Melo during a seminar on arboviruses organized by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) in Rio de Janeiro. Arboviruses are diseases caused by viruses transmitted mainly by mosquitoes, such as Aedes aegypti, which transmits dengue, Zika, and chikungunya.

The large increase is caused by the numbers of the epidemic in Brazil. The country will have more than 3.1 million probable cases in 2024, or 67.4% of all cases in Latin America and the Caribbean. In absolute numbers, Brazil tops the list, followed at a considerable distance by Paraguay, Argentina, and Peru, with no more than 200,000 cases each. However, Brazil ranked second in the incidence ratio, behind Paraguay.

Paraguay has a rate of 2.54 cases per 1,000 inhabitants, while Brazil has 1,816 as per PAHO estimate. However, Brazil's Health Ministry claims the incidence rate is 1.529/1,000. The difference is believed to stem from PAHO counting suspected cases as positive before laboratory results came out negative.

Regarding the number of confirmed dengue deaths, Brazil has 1,292 records as of 2024, again topping PAHO's ranking of absolute numbers. However, in proportional terms, Brazil stands behind Paraguay, Guatemala, Peru, Bolivia, Honduras, Ecuador, and Argentina.

Of the 25 countries covered by the PAHO study, 12 were found to have dengue outbreaks. For PAHO, one of the causes behind the epidemic in Brazil and the outbreaks in other countries is the El Niño phenomenon, an abnormal warming of the waters of the Pacific Ocean, arguably the largest ever recorded. “This behavior is clearly associated with climate change,” Melo said.​..
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Brazil reports over 1,600 deaths from dengue in 2024

​21st April 2024, 12:05 GMT+10
Xinhua

SAO PAULO, April 20 (Xinhua) -- Brazil has registered 1,601 confirmed deaths from dengue so far this year, with another 2,061 deaths under investigation, the Health Ministry said Saturday.

A total of 3.53 million suspected cases of dengue have been reported nationwide, and the incidence rate of dengue fever in the South American country is currently 1,741 suspected cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

The number of confirmed deaths is 35 percent higher than the total in 2023, which was 1,179 deaths. ...

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Source: https://en.mercopress.com/2024/05/0...-over-2-000-deaths-so-far-this-year-in-brazil


Dengue fever causes over 2,000 deaths so far this year in Brazil
Thursday, May 2nd 2024 - 10:24 UTC

Dengue fever has killed over 2,000 people in Brazil while almost 4.2 million cases of the malady have been confirmed this year in South America's largest country. The incidence rate of the disease is 2,056.9 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

According to federal health authorities, some 2,073 deaths have been added to dengue's tab, while 2,291 other victims are still under investigation. The new figures represent an all-time high for Brazil, the Health Ministry reckoned while urging people not to lower their guard even though the worst part of dengue infections is believed to be behind. In all of 2023, only 1,094 deaths were recorded due to dengue in what had been the year with the most fatalities.

“We still have to pay attention. We have climbed the mountain, now we are descending, but we still have many cases that can occur and deaths that can be avoided,” warned the Sanitary and Environmental Surveillance Secretary Ethel Maciel.

Six Brazilian municipalities are to receive shortly the first batch of Aedes Aegypti mosquitoes infected with the wolbachia bacteria, a kind of Trojan horse to decimate the community of infected insects with viral load, it was reported. The strategy is expected to be extended next year to another 22 municipalities in the state of Minas Gerais.

The districts to receive the man-treated mosquitoes are Uberlândia Minas Gerais); Londrina and Foz do Iguaçu (Paraná); Presidente Prudente (São Paulo); Joinville (Santa Catarina); and Natal (Rio Grande do Norte).​//
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Source: https://www.diariodepernambuco.com....nto-de-391-nos-casos-suspeitos-de-dengue.html

1,921 / 5,000
Pernambuco has a 391% increase in suspected dengue cases, according to an epidemiological bulletin
The state has already registered 12 deaths between December 31, 2023 and August 31, 2024
By: Adelmo Lucena
Published on: 09/04/2024 22:05
Pernambuco has already registered, between December 31, 2023 and August 31, 2024, 10,164 cases of dengue, of which 171 were probable serious cases and 12 confirmed deaths. The numbers were released this Wednesday (4) by the State Health Department (SES-PE).

The Epidemiological Bulletin of Arboviruses No. 35 shows that Pernambuco has already recorded 29,457 suspected cases as of August 31, an increase of 391.6% compared to the same period last year.

The SES report indicates that 64 municipalities in Pernambuco have a high incidence of dengue cases, 69 have an incidence considered average and 52 locations appear to have a low incidence of the disease.

In addition, the monitoring highlights that 34 deaths due to arboviruses were ruled out and 27 continue to be investigated by the Epidemiological Surveillance team of the municipality where the deceased resided. Subsequently, the case is taken to a technical committee to discuss the death, in which several professionals evaluate the cause of death.

Oropouche Fever

The number of confirmed cases of oropouche fever has reached 134 in Pernambuco, according to the most recent SES bulletin. The infections are occurring in 21 cities, namely: Jaqueira, Pombos, Água Preta, Moreno, Maraial, Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Rio Formoso, Timbaúba, Itamaracá, Jaboatão dos Guararapes, Catende, Camaragibe, Ipojuca, Itaquitinga, Macaparana, Sirinhaém, Bonito, Garanhuns, Aliança, Machados and Barra de Guabiraba.

Chikungunya and Zika

The bulletin also reports that, in Pernambuco, 4,630 probable cases of Chikungunya and 1,358 confirmed cases have been reported. For the Zika virus, 246 suspected cases have been recorded, although none have been confirmed to date...​